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Re:Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies by JustAnotherPat on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:04PM (#14325155)
He didn't spend anybody's money. He spent their dogecoin which is a bunch of made up gibberish.
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Re:Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies by ifdefdebug on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:08PM (#14325187)
FWIW, he had no right to spend his customer's made up gibberish either.
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Re:Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies by AdamSC1 on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:10PM (#14325209)
Had no moral right. Did he have a legal right? That's more complicated.

(Still don't think he should have)

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Re:Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies by cl0wnshoes on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:16PM (#14325272)
Made up gibberish worth an estimated 140-400k USD based on the wallets ranking (top 100). Somehow that gibberish was transformed into "real" money to pay the bills.
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